Casino Royale

Interesting problems develop on this issue, I am not a spokesperson for anybody, just familiar with some of the events surrounding the problem. Many years ago, 150 Shinnecock, natives of the "East End" of Long Island, in the same vicinity as New York state's claimed oldest town, Southampton, (1638?) helped construct a 12 hole golf course, the first one in the US, according to the "Scotsman" newspaper in its online edition. Apparently, many of the "traps" it's reported, also contained burials of their ancestors, that particular large property itself I am not sure how it was obtained, it's "heritage" and much more property is currently being contested over an "unlawful" seizure in 1859, as stated in the suit. Further east, it's thought, the Montaukett land claims were negated in a Federal court, in 1910, I read. The Shinnecock case has been brought up against many parties (state highway, Southampton Town, Southampton College, the golf course, and other agencies) on their behalf by a casino operator, and asserts that they have had their land illegally taken, and the current dwellers and users have come onto their property illegally as defined by Federal treaty. Do they in this case take back and rebury the remains on the golf course under NAGPRA? This case went to the courts just a few months ago. The "Scotsman" referred to their current lands as a "plantation" where their labor came from to build the golf course, toward the end of the 19th century. It is a crossroads of American history, the first 12 hole golf course, etc. and a people who have never been cited in the over 400 years there, to have ever been involved in any skirmish or "war" with European settlers. Stony Brook University is currently considering buying the cash-strapped Southampton College from Long Island University to get its marine sciences programs closer to the ocean, and expand next door on the former Gyrodyne properties (once makers of remote naval sub-hunter helicopters), that property ironically once also in negotiation in part to become a golf course.